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Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
I've visited to and lived in many cities across the world.
Vancouver is the only one where I felt legitimately unsafe.
I stayed at St Clair Hotel-Hostel...I know not a great place but it had good reviews and I was a solo traveller.
I was coming from China so my sleeping was all messed up and at around 5 am I went out to get a coffee. There was a guy shooting up right outside the door. I've never seen that in my life.
Then walking around there are too many people who are really messed up on drugs. You don't know what they are going to do because there's a group of them and they are all completely out of it.
That's why I don't understand how Vancouver is ranked as such a great city. With such a huge pocket like that it comes across as a ####hole to me.
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It's actually very rare for any kind of violence, not directed at other drug addicts, to occur in the DTES. It's quite heavily monitored by police.
It's obviously jarring to see people openly using crack and heroine, but it's not especially unsafe. You're far more likely to be the victim of violent crime in a small town. Many of the towns in Alberta are statistically worse than BC.
I actually feel a lot safer walking through the DTES at night than I do hanging around the C-train stations or quieter downtown areas in Calgary.